Launching the Christmas Wonderland…

The last few weeks we have been loving running our latest Wonderland space all centred around Christmas! With ten activities all Christmas related it has been a perfect addition to many of our recent Step Days. Students get to spend five minutes at each of the stations which have a range of different activities from deigning a decoration with the theme of joy to matching the prophesies of Jesus to their fulfillments. Along with immersive dives into the gifts given by the Magi to matching Christmas traditions to their country of origin. There has been something that can engage everyone and all have found different parts they’ve enjoyed most.

We have also loved seeing some wonderful heartfelt messages for people in Care Homes, Asylum Seekers and Food Bank Guests which were written in one of the activities. These messages aim to bring light and hope to those who receive them. 

It had also been fantastic to run some of the stations as Cafe spaces during lunch times at schools as part of a themed week. I was in Marlborough in the first week of December and then have been in Townsend this week and have had some fantastic conversations with students whilst running the activities and it’s been really nice to get to know some of the young people better.

It has been an enjoyable space to create. I particularly enjoyed creating the track for the immersive space looking at the gifts given to Jesus and painting all the little boxes for the gold, frankincense and Myrrh to go in. Mary has done a fantastic job at creating all the other spaces with an incredible attention to detail. We look forward to running the last one next week and will be excited to see how many more schools we could run a themed week cafe in next year. 

Helena :)